Does this panel give you an impression that there's an earthquake/the ground is rumbling?

[DogshitJay]

hmm it looks more like single direction movement to me, like the view from a car, not so much like shaking.

[Bishmuth]

Thanks! I'll definitely try that!

[Bishmuth]

When you say 'fell out of balance' are you talking about changing the actual pose?

[Cavechan]

It looks more like wind because the lines are horizontal. Earthquake would use vertical lines.

[DualDragons]

Well yes, but just a little tweaking might also do the trick and save you some time. In that regard i agree with @Smalish about slightly sliding the silhouette off lineart.

[unknown_user]

When moderately strong earthquake happens, things, which are not strongly attached to the floor, fall around. Inside of cave, pieces of rocks would fall from the ceiling. Also there would be dust in the air and cracks everywhere in case of more strong earthquake.

When I tried to depict earthquake in my comics, I did it like this:

Not sure, if it's the best way to do it (LOL), but maybe you'll use something from it for your work, too.

[Bishmuth]

I tried that, but since all the trees are vertical, they kind of just blended in

[Bishmuth]

@Smalish @DualDragons

What do you think of this?

[IndigoShirtProd]

Yea, this is a lot better

[unknown_user]

Ouch, it's not a cave, just dark forest. In this case, forget
Sorry for being inattentive.

[Bishmuth]

That's completely alright! I think you'd need the context of the other panels to know that.
Thanks for your advice though! I'll add some leaves or something, because of course they would fall too!

[Iamapersonmanguy]

yea it still looks really good

[DualDragons]

Oh yeah this does look a lot more like an earthquake

[Bishmuth]

Thanks for all your help guys!

[Iamapersonmanguy]

no problem!!!.......

[Rhonder]

The new version bg looks much better! The only thing I would push even further is the character- despite doing the silhouette thing he still looks too... perfect/unaffected compared to everything else in the panel now? I would consider applying some of the same shakey blur effect to the edges of him as well maybe. Not like completely blur him out but just make his form feel a little less solid. Either way big improvements already

[Bishmuth]

Did you mean something like this?

[Iamapersonmanguy]

oh my god i love it.

[Bishmuth]

Thank you! If it wasn't for all you guys, I'm sure my comic would look a lot worse ahah

[Iamapersonmanguy]

it would still look amazing either way.
and what's your comic called??